Learning to Learn LO4542

Doug Seeley (100433.133@compuserve.com)
02 Jan 96 01:20:56 EST

In response to the thread in Learning to Learn on Empowerment and the
postings of Joe Hays, Rol Fessenden (I especially liked Rol's anecdotal
example of empowerment emerging), Joe DeVicenzo and Bernie DeKoven, I want
to add the following two bits...

First, I was surprised that Bernie felt that empowerment being a
self-generated process rather than something given to another was
something new. I guess I am dated by the early 70's use of such terms
like empowerment and synergy, not noticing that general usage has
transformed some of their meaning. However, this dissonance around
"given" is something I feel worth exploring.

My perspective on this is that empowerment is given only in the sense,
that an environment which acknowledges and affirms the intrinsic value of
empowerment creates effective conditions for more empowered individuals to
emerge with their presence. The more we allow our own empowerment to
flower, and the more that we accept it in others (even when it appears
differently), the more it will naturally arise, as Joe said, "in a
self-organized manner".

I wonder what the relationships and underlying generator of this
self-organization are??

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